The ‘Fab Four’ didn’t attend nearly as many as royal events as others.

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KING’S LYNN, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 25: (L-R) Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex leave after attending Christmas Day Church service at Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate on December 25, 2018 in King’s Lynn, England. (Photo by Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

Prince Harry walks with his best man, Prince William, as he arrives at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for his wedding to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Brian Lawless – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Prince William, Prince Harry and their fashionable wives Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle may garner all the headlines for their youth, glamour and reported feuds. They also may be getting all the credit for infusing the British royal family with new life and relevance that should keep the 1,000-year-old institution in business at least through the end of the 21st century.

But it seems that the so-called “Fab Four,” especially brothers William and Harry, may somewhat be getting by on charm.

Meanwhile, less popular royals, including the oft-scandal-plagued Prince Andrew, are pulling more of the weight when it comes to domestic and overseas public appearances on behalf of “The Firm,” according to analyses by two U.K. news outlets.

Surveys of 2018 royal events by the Times of London and the Telegraph show that both William and Harry fell far short of their aunt, Princess Anne, their 70-year-old father Prince Charles and their uncles Prince Andrew and Prince Edward when it came to representing the family at official engagements.

Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. (Getty Images)

Former equestrian Anne was the no. 1 hardest working royal in 2018, according to both the Times and the Telegraph. Global royal watchers generally stopped paying much attention to her after Princess Diana came on the scene in 1981, but Anne may be the most visible royal in other ways. According to the Times survey, Anne attended attended 518 total events in 2018, 447 in the U.K. and 71 overseas.

To put that into perspective, that’s more than the total number of events attended by William, Harry and Kate combined, according to the Times survey. Meghan, the new Duchess of Sussex, presumably wasn’t part of this particular calculation because she only joined the family in May.

William, the 36-year-old Duke of Cambridge, attended 150 events at home and 70 abroad, while Harry, 34, made 108 domestic appearances and 85 overseas. Maybe Harry was busy planning his May 19 wedding to Meghan, a U.S.-born former TV actress. The couple also took a two-week honeymoon to Canada in June and, like other royal family members, they also took about a month off in August.

Kate clocked in just 87 events, but she has been busy rearing three young children, who also happen to be royal heirs. The Duchess of Cambridge also took about six months’ leave for the birth of her third child, Prince Louis, in April.

Prince Charles, who will become king after 92-year-old Elizabeth II dies, came in a close second to his sister as the busiest royal, having attended a total of 507 events, the Times survey showed. He was the busiest royal in 2017, having attended an astounding 547 events.

Anne and Charles were followed on the Times survey by their two younger brothers, Prince Andrew (who attended 394 events) and Prince Edward (463).

Prince Philip, 96, has retired from royal duties, while Elizabeth has stopped traveling overseas. But the revered monarch still managed to attend 283 official engagements in the U.K. — again more than her grandsons William and Harry.

In the seven months following her May wedding to Harry, Meghan attended 45 events domestically and 51 aboard. The latter figure no doubt included events she attended during her first royal tour with Harry to Australia, New Zealand and Commonwealth countries in the Pacific islands.

Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry attend a ceremony to mark the centenary of theBattle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 2017 in Vimy France. (Photo by ArthurEdwards – Pool/Getty Images)

In another survey by the Telegraph, calculating the total number of days worked by royal family members, Princess Anne came in first as the hardest working royal.

The Telegraph survey also noted that William and Harry attended about 20 percent more engagements than they did in 2017.

The idea that William, second in line to the throne, wasn’t putting enough time into his royal work had became a bit of a sore point. It was reported to have been a factor in his deciding to quit his job as an air ambulance pilot in the English countryside last summer to move his family into Kensington Palace in London. He was expected to pick up some duties for his father, who is assuming more of the queen’s day-to-day responsibilities as he prepares to become king.

Unlike Anne, Charles, Andrew and Edward, the “Fab Four” may be less inclined to take on a quantity of more “traditional” duties — like visiting charities and community events and opening new buildings or unveiling plaques, the Telegraph noted.

Instead, the younger royals tend to focus on more involved projects on key topics, such as support for mental health awareness, promoting the annual Invictus Games for wounded veterans and supporting survivors of the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, the Telegraph said.

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.